GeForce GTS 450 1GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		106 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTS 450 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		57728 MB/sec
	Difference: 46272 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (about 101%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTS 450 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		25056 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25344 (101%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the GeForce GTS 450 1GB, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		12528 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4272 (34%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.